A man of Georgia was sentenced to almost 500 years in prison after the authorities saved more than 100 malnutrition pit bulls attached to metal trees and posts in his backyard in a dog fighting Bust ring.
Vincent Lemark Burrell, 57, was sentenced to 475 years last week, more than two years after the authorities made a descent into the property of Dallas, in Georgia, and discovered the disturbing scene.
“Wherever you looked, you couldn’t take a step in one direction without there being Another pit-bull marked on a channel“Said the deputy prosecutor of Paulding County, Kc Pagnotta, adding that he would be the longest sentence in American history for this crime.
Deputy Prosecutor of District KC Pagnotta poses with Baby Shark, one of the victims of the dog fighting ring.
Post from the District / Facebook prosecutor’s office
“And the goal of doing so is dog fight,” said the prosecutor. “They will put the pit-bull on a chain, and they will space each dog enough to be able to see each other. They can be agitated, but they cannot really go to each other. And that is part of the construction of the attack they used to form combat dogs. »»
Burrell was found guilty of 103 counts, including 93 counts of dog fighting and 10 chiefs of cruelty to animals, after a four -day trial, the The district prosecutor’s office announced January 30.
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The Burrell house scene was revealed in November 2022, when an Amazon delivery driver saw several attached dogs while placing a package.
Police found 107 dogs, which were in weight insufficiency or weight insufficiency, without access to food or water. The canines wore thick necklaces attached to heavy journalization chains which were fixed to trees and metal issues in the ground.
The dog necklaces seized at the Maison de Géorgie by Vincent Lemark Burrell.
Sheriff of Paulding countries
Lying inside the house, the police found an equally horrible scene.
“Some dogs were hosted in the basement of the house where the presence (with the smell) of the urine and the excrement was so strong, the authorities had to Porter protective equipment Just to be able to enter the house safely, ”according to a press release from the Sheriff’s Bureau of the County of Paulding. “The conditions where dogs were accommodated, inside and outside this property were not in good shape for humans, even less dogs.”
During their research, the agents also found equipment and documents connecting Burrell to an operation to combat dogs. They found a reproductive support, a dog treadmill and a device called a pause of a break, used to force the mouth of a dog during a fight. There was a living chicken that had been used to try the dogs, a veterinary kit to treat dogs injured in a fight and the papers connecting Burrell to known Dogfighters.
The same day as research, an examination of certain dogs by a veterinarian confirmed that dogs had scars of scars compatible with dog fights and rashes around their necks, and many lacked teeth, suggesting that they had been forcibly removed from their mouths.
“Whether it’s a message erase That the county of Paulding will not accept or accept the inhuman treatment of animals – in particular violence and abuses associated with dog fighting, “said Pagnotta.
“Justice has been done today for speechless. This type of activity will not be tolerated in the county of Paulding, “said Sheriff Ashley Henson.
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